Interim StaffNew statistics indicate that British women are eliminating their unborn children because of non-life-threatening deformities such as deformed feet or cleft lips and palates. They are also increasingly aborting children suspected of having physical or mental deformities. Ground E of the Abortion Act makes abortion legal up to nine months if a child has a serious risk of physical or mental [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim One of the world's top researchers into life issues made a tour of southern Ontario recently, offering information and strategies to combat the anti-life agenda - a particularly timely topic, given the federal election campaign and the prominence given to abortion within it. Dr. Brian Clowes included a Basic Pro-Life Training Workshop in Hamilton as part of his [...]
Raises concerns that assisted suicide will be legalized Alex Schadenberg The Interim A Canadian study that was sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found that seniors have the highest rate of suicide in Canada. As people age or become sick, the risk of suicide goes up substantially, with the highest suicide [...]
LifeSite NewsA new study published in the June American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse strengthens the case for a causal connection between abortion and substance abuse. The study found that among women who had unintended first pregnancies, those who had abortions were more likely to report, an average of four years later, more frequent and recent use of alcohol, marijuana and [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Administering a punch in the face, fifteen hours of community service and a letter of apology. Not a bad deal for Douglas Chase of Vancouver Island, B.C. Chase, apparently upset by certain pro-life signs, attacked without warning Campaign Life Coalition B.C. president John Hof while the latter was picketing with other pro-life supporters outside a Vancouver abortuary in [...]
Commentary by Donald DeMarco The Interim In the year 1508, Pope Julius II ordered a reluctant Michelangelo Buonarroti - who considered himself a sculptor and not a painter - to paint the huge vault of the Sistine Chapel, which, since the time of Sixtus IV, displayed nothing more resplendent than a blue field sprinkled with golden stars. Despite his initial reluctance, Michelangelo [...]
Richard John Neuhaus Special to The Interim The demographics of the abortion controversy are often overlooked. Recent months have seen a number of reports indicating that opposition to abortion is growing dramatically among young people. In a Gallup survey of youth aged 13 to 17, only 19 percent said that abortion should be legal in all circumstances (the current regime of Roe [...]
Kathy Shaidle The Interim The press seemed to relish the irony, making a point of mentioning Michael Briere's chosen profession at almost every opportunity: here was a software programmer, admitting to viewing child pornography on his computer just before he raped, murdered and dismembered 10-year-old Holly Jones. The June 17 admission sparked a controversy, pitting police, parents and social conservatives against internet [...]
Sue Careless The Interim Just three days after the Anglican Church of Canada declared homosexual relationships holy, 22 primates representing 70 per cent of Anglicans worldwide, called for the Canadian church to be expelled from their international communion. On June 3, the Canadian church's governing body, General Synod, voted in St. Catharines to "affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim In this edition of Corporate Watch, we'll be focusing mainly on some good news coming out of the corporate world. Look for some not-so-good news and areas of concern in the next edition. The owners of the Curves fitness chain, Gary and Diane Heavin, came under fire earlier this year for giving away 10 per cent of the [...]
Paul Jalsevac The Interim John C. Danforth, a well-known opponent of abortion, was recently nominated by President George Bush to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. A former Republican senator from Missouri with a nearly impeccable pro-life voting record, Danforth retired from the Senate in 1995 after 18 years of service. He has acted as Bush's special envoy to [...]
Pro-lifers say it would be wrong to promote embryo research as Reagan legacy Interim staff Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's triggered an outpouring of support for human embryonic stem cell research from numerous members of Congress emboldened by the comments of Reagan's widow, Nancy. But, in an article in Human Events Online Michael Reagan protested the use of his father's name to [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim In the hundreds of hours of broadcast commentary and hundreds of thousands of words written following the death of Ronald Reagan, very little was said about his commitment to protect the unborn. Reagan was remembered as the man who brought down the Evil Empire, who restored America after its Jimmy Carter malaise and rejuvenated an intellectually dead Republican [...]
Paul Jalsevac The Interim Conservative leader Stephen Harper recently set forth a vision in which the Supreme Court would return to its traditional role, one focused on applying rather than making law. "My view is that the role of the court is to apply the Charter to protect the rights laid out in the Charter," said Harper. "The role of the court [...]
On Father's Day weekend, Canadians watched two of their nation's highest-profile dads argue bitterly about which one of them hated child pornography more. It all started during the English-language leaders debate. In the midst of an exchange about using the notwithstanding clause to override Supreme Court decisions, Conservative leader Stephen Harper abruptly raised the issue of child pornography. Up to that point, [...]